as is tradition, I post a countdown of my top 100 posts from the year, starting today with No. 100-81. hit the link! www.artbutmakeitsports.com/p/the-best-o...

a neat (and scary) survey into AI "companions" and kids www.aura.com/reports/stat... "nearly half of the time kids and teens use AI, it is for companionship, and when they do, the themes of discussion are primarily sexual, romantic, and violent."

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

Reposing with alt text: Bob Dylan meets the drum machine circa 1985 (via Campbell's recent memoir)

Intolerante boodschappen worden zelden openlijk zo gebracht. De meeste mensen zien zichzelf graag als redelijk en moreel goed. Veel effectiever om ze een frame te geven waarin ze intolerant kunnen zijn zonder dat zelfbeeld te hoeven loslaten. Daarom zijn dit soort nep-lieve stukjes geniepig.

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

Als je per se wilt doen alsof je als journalist/medium geen eigen moreel kompas hebt - want “neutraal” ofzo, krijg je dit. Een glasheldere buitengerechtelijke moordpartij wordt vervaagd tot “omstreden” en “mogelijke oorlogsmisdaad” in een laf ‘zij zeggen dit, maar anderen zeggen dat’-stukje.

When you want to place "Gérard Depardieu" in Name Scrabble but you don't have all the letters

On “The Necessary Conversation” podcast, Chad’s Trump supporter parents tell him the military should follow Trump’s illegal orders and kill everyone in LA if Trump commanded it — even with him and his sister in the city😳

Elke dag opnieuw verdwijnen mensen met long covid verder uit het zicht. Terwijl buiten het leven doorgaat, liggen patiënten binnen in het donker, soms al 667, 1129 of zelfs 1520 dagen. Wat een indrukwekkende als schrijnende reportage in de Volkskrant. ⤵️ www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

The true journalism scandal is a pathological liar can’t ask for better propaganda than a headline that’s just what he said as if it’s true and the entirety of the story is just his quote with zero context or explanation or skepticism, all published under the name of an established news brand

The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Zojuist gehoord op Radio 4: "het Oosterse Romeinse Rijk"

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

Yep, here's your problem gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

It's interesting that wise conservative business guys implicitly understand "return on investment" except when it comes to this. It's better for YOU if your neighbor gets enough to eat so he can become your community's mechanic, accountant, dentist--whatever!--instead of lying dead in a ditch

In 1519, the year Spaniards arrived in Mexico, the population there was between 15 - 30 million. By 1600, that dwindled to 2 million. For lots of reasons, but as much as 70% of those deaths were the result of an UNKNOWN hemorrhagic fever. Let's talk about the mystery of the COCOLIZTLI epidemics.

Universities across the world seeing this: "its only wrong 45% of the time!! Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!! Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

6. The revolving door between Amazon and the Bezos Earth Fund is particularly concerning, as Amazon’s carbon emissions have increased by over 50% since 2018, largely driven by increased energy usage associated with AI. Bezos Earth Fund argues that AI is part of the solution to climate change.

3. The Bezos Earth Fund reportedly pressured a leading environmental standards group, the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), to relax its rules around letting corporations use offsets to meet carbon goals.

2. Most of Bezos' charitable giving ($2.3 billion) has gone to the Bezos Earth Fund. But the organization has developed a reputation less as a sincere effort to combat climate change and more as a vehicle for the corporate infiltration of the key climate organizations.

Op sociale media delen PVV-fanaccounts levensechte AI-beelden, veelal van knappe, blonde vrouwen die worden bedreigd door migranten. Deze pagina’s blijken te worden beheerd door minstens twee PVV-Kamerleden. 👉 buff.ly/MFNFcU3

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

My daughter has just found this in Istanbul

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

BREAKING: At least 2 students shot at Evergreen High School, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

Today I learned about Curt Baller. He was mayor of the German town Nordhausen, until the nazis replaced him with Sting.

Tip of the iceberg. www.israelhayom.com/2025/04/23/b...

Ik wil dat de politiek de samenleving sterker dient, met name de plucheplakkers van NSC en BBB. Werk eens niet alleen voor jezelf en je eigen partij voor dat riante salaris. www.scienceguide.nl/2025/08/nsc-...

Exhibit A

fossil fuels are the perfect mechanism for capitalist accumulation b/c they enable profit to be extracted from the past (capturing energy from archived sunlight), & the future, as costs are externalized to an elsewhere that is not only spatially distant but temporally too

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

AI is a disaster for education at all levels. restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

Bleaching was once a warning. Now it’s a death mark. Entire stretches of reef aren’t bouncing back — they’re gone. When an ecosystem that took millennia to build dies in front of us, that’s not “alarmism.” That’s reality. apple.news/AwSmcDCgARE-...

Staggering numbers of Palestinians now being shot in Gaza as they try to find food at GHF sites, or along UN convoy routes. More than 4,500 people treated in a single Red Cross clinic. Almost 1,400 across two MSF clinics. Total is more than 12,000, according to health ministry.

Generating text statistically similar to training, 2 years ago, meant statistically similar to humans. Now it means statistically similar to a billion reddit posts where a guy is ranting and raving about how quantum recursion is transforming him into an immortal god

"More than 1,500 civilians may have been massacred during an attack on Sudan’s largest displacement camp in April, in what would be the second-biggest war crime of the country’s catastrophic conflict." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

nos.nl/l/2577755 En omwille van de.... balans? voegen ze deze alinea in, inclusief de tussenkop 'Chatbots kunnen patiënten ook helpen'

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This is a moral abomination.

What a horror story. Why would anyone come to the USA for a vacation? Story of a Swiss woman detained in humiliating conditions at JFK + in NJ detention before being deported. www.nzz.ch/english/you-...

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